Just give it another chance... HELL NO!

[ReloadPsi]

Yeah guys you obviously don't hate these games you've played to completion. If you hate the game you play for an hour. If you play for 15 hours or play through FFX three times, or get to Penance, you're either exaggerating or an idiot, because you either did like it or you voluntarily did something you don't like for dozens of hours

Dude, can you freakin' read? This post is about "giving games a chance". Never mind that if you hate a game you play it for an hour because apparently playing a game for a whole day doesn't even seem to count as giving games a chance anymore! Try having someone tell you over and over again that you didn't give a game a chance to the point that they're basically criticising you directly for it, then come back and tell me that I'm exaggerating or "obviously like the game". Seriously, none of my friends or peers have accused me of not giving games a chance ever since I proved that I could... hell, they couldn't even beat the Dark Aeons and I could! Now that's gonna open the whole can o' worms about me being sick of the things I happen to be good at and not what I want to be. I was about to continue into my usual rant about that topic but it's not even relevant.

But hey, I guess all my "given chance" proves is that FFX is also way too easy as well as just being a crappy "keep running north until another poorly dubbed cutscene plays you can't be bothered to sit through so I'll just go cook dinner" fest. I worked that out very early on into the game, but after I was told I hadn't given it a chance I decided to play it almost to death and prove my point. Surprise, by the end of the game I had clocked god knows how many hours of running north and waiting for poorly dubbed cutscenes to finish. FF is indeed quite repetitive by nature but this one was especially repetitive (how many different kinds of hornets am I gonna meet anyway?), and the poorly dubbed cutscenes just brought its pace so low that if it went any faster it would've stopped.

I played that to death to prove I could give a game a chance. And like I said, this masochistic act has shut my friends up for good. They didn't even try and talk me into playing Devil May Cry a second time, and attempts to make me play FFXI again were virtually effortless. It's like they knew they couldn't win.

BONUS BOX!

I also once got all 120 stars in Super Mario 64 and met Yoshi on the roof. I still loathe that game for its crappy cameras and how blindingly easy I'm totally convinced it would've been if not for the crappy cameras. I still have a clear picture of my 120th star in my head: I'd finally managed to collect 100 coins on Rainbow Ride, and the camera was zoomed out so far (and buzzed every time I tried to zoom further in) that I could barely see Mario, and was making blind leaps of faith to grab coins... did I mention I was on a moving platform and one wrong guess would've killed me again?

And my reason for doing this? Why, people kept telling me over and over that it was a good game and I should give it a chance!

Believe me, some of us know aaaall about giving games a chance. I gave Final Fantasy V another chance also... the difference there is that I absolutely loved it the second time, having learned to (go ahead and punch me) forsake the Black Mage.